SAINTS, MYSTICS AND VILLAINS OF PETERSBURG

MYSTICAL PETERSBURG

ENIGMATIC FACES OF THE CITY

Mystical and full of paradoxes, our city not once became the stage for fantastic events both in real
history and in famous literature masterpieces, where events take place in arabesque and creepy-crawly environment of the northern city, living
the secret life of its own and dictating its rules to the people ...
[Enigmatic faces of the City]

CITY LEGENDS AND FABLES

Up to now Petersburg seems to be something unreal. Beauty and perfection created on the human sufferings and human bones.

Just three centuries passed from the date of foundation of this city but its past up to now is full
of enigmas and mysteries, and even now different legends about the inscrutable
events which happened on the Neva banks in distant and close past ...

MYSTICS OF PETERSBURG

History of Saint Petersburg is steeped in bewitchment of mystery, in the feeling of something great and incomprehensible.

Our city always attracted the unusual people. The figure of Peter the Great himself at the beginnings of this city appears the expression of human genius.

Simple citation of famous and forgotten names of enigmatic people who lived in the Northern Capital of the Empire or just visited it would occupy dozens of pages ...

Saint patrons of the city

According beliefs of our ancestors every person has a Guardian Angel protecting him or her from any evil and it is also commonly accepted that
the city cannot stay on earth without three righteous ones.

And certainly Saint Petersburg has more than one saint patron. These are Apostle Peter, John of Kronstadt, Saint Alexander Nevsky and Xenia the Blissful ...

Rasputin

Fearful profundities of "Petersburg" period of Russian history yawn if we look into the fate of Grigory Efimovich Rasputin.

Hypnotist and psychic, having healed the people whom the official medicine could not help. Drunkard, brawler and debauchee, whose adventures became legends already during his lifetime.
Friend and confessor of royal family, great martyr and almost saint ...